so sorry
Relaxed, confident and unapologetic, President Bush delivered his seventh and likely final State of the Union address Monday, giving a triumphal appraisal of the war in Iraq and citing a list of modest proposals that came with two barbed veto threats.
Say what? What’s Bush to apologize for? Being gracious for seven years while foaming-at-the-mouth ankle biters howled demented insults?
Maybe Bush should have said:
- I’m sorry for liberating 26 million Afghans from tyranny, especially the women who now have to work at jobs and are denied the right to serve as halftime entertainment at soccer games.
- I’m sorry for asking the public schools to actually demonstrate their students are learning.
- I’m sorry for helping seniors pay for their medicine via Medicare.
- I’m sorry for negotiating an end to the Sudanese civil war that killed 2.5 million people. I’m really sorry the world, meaning Europe, won’t get off its ass and help finish the job in Darfur and be of more use in Afghanistan.
- I’m sorry for trying to reform Social Security. I should have known that Democrats are too selfish to do the right thing.
- I’m sorry I scared Libya into giving up its nuclear weapons.
- I’m sorry I came through with funding for AIDS programs in Africa instead of just talking about it and feeling their pain. Now they’re going to have to figure out how to feed all those survivors.
- I’m sorry that Saddam’s execution was a bit ugly, but hey, evil begets evil.
- I’m really sorry the budding democracy in Iraq scares the crap out of tyrants in Iran and Syria.